Mr. President. I shall detain the Senate but a so far as our foreign born are concerned. the policy of Gervery short time. I think I ought to say a word. however. as many. It was the racial feeling of Germany that Germans to tie objections which have been urged in support of the were a superior race in the world that led to their downfall. proposition of going back to the census of 1890. I tell you. Mr. President. that in this proposition to go back The quota law under which we have been working for the to the census of 1890 as a basis for the quota calculation there past three years was something new. There was a threatened is involved the adoption of an immigration law based upon flow of immigration from Europe at the close of the World racial discrimination. which is the most dangerous and unWar. especially from southern and eastern Europe. The quota American principle ever propounded in the American Senate. law was designed to check that flow. It has operated to do it.
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Immigrants from southern and eastern Europe are a threat to American values and racial purity.